Groups used guns and spears to prevent supporters of rivals from reaching the polling booths in a village in Narsingdi district in central Bangladesh, killing three people, said Satyajt Kumar ...

Producing millions of ducklings each month, a traditional, electricity-free hatching method has turned struggling households into profitable, self-reliant hatcheries across Netrokona, Sunamganj and Ha ...

Joypurhat/Dhaka, Bangladesh, and New Delhi/Kolkata, India – Under the mild afternoon sun, 45-year-old Safiruddin sits outside his incomplete brick-walled house in Baiguni village of Kalai ...

According to Bangladesh Bank data, as of March 2025, 31 scheduled banks are offering agent banking services through 21,023 active outlets managed by 15,838 agents. Impressively, 85.68% of these ...

The loan was tiny. Just $19 to buy a bus ticket. But for Mariful Islam, the difference it made was immense. Islam is 24. He has lived in the same rural village in Bangladesh his whole life. He ...

For decades, the phrase “Made in Bangladesh” has been primarily associated with the global fashion industry. Unfortunately, ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Solar power is in place in nearly a million homes in rural Bangladesh, which is drastically short of electricity, the World Bank said on Monday. "More than 870,000 homes and ...

Five weeks ago, a 20-year-old named Arifa Sultana delivered a baby in a hospital in southwestern Bangladesh. As the BBC has reported, Sultana had received limited prenatal care in her rural ...

Baiguni village, in Kalai Upazila of Bangladesh, is known as the "village of one kidney", because so many of its residents have sold their kidneys [Aminul Islam Mithu/ Al Jazeera] ...